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NEW YORK — A judge confirmed Friday that President-elect Donald Trump will not be sentenced this month in his hush cash case, as a substitute setting a schedule for prosecutors and his legal professionals to increase on their concepts about what to do subsequent.
Amid a flurry of filings within the case since Trump’s election win this month, it had already develop into clear that the Nov. 26 sentencing date would not maintain. Judge Juan M. Merchan’s order Friday formalized that with out setting a brand new one.
He known as for extra submitting from each side over the subsequent 2 1/2 weeks about methods to proceed in gentle of Trump’s impending return to the White House.
Trump’s legal professionals need the case to be dismissed outright, and instantly. They have mentioned that it in any other case will intrude together with his presidential transition and duties.
Prosecutors have indicated that they are open to placing the case on maintain, maybe so long as he is in workplace, however they do not need it to be scrapped altogether. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat, has mentioned the answer must steadiness the obligations of the presidency with “the sanctity of the jury verdict.”
Bragg’s workplace declined to touch upon Friday’s ruling. Trump spokesperson and incoming White House communications director Steven Cheung hailed it as “a decisive win” for Trump.
Trump, a Republican, was convicted in May of falsifying his enterprise’ information to disguise the true nature of a series of funds that offered $130,000 to porn actor Stormy Daniels. She obtained it, via Trump’s then-lawyer, within the waning days of the 2016 presidential marketing campaign.
The payout was meant to maintain her quiet a couple of sexual encounter she says she had with the married Trump a decade earlier. He denies her declare and says he did nothing unsuitable.
